Many examples of Location-aware services have been developed in recent years as the enabling technologies mature. However, these services frequently exist in isolation and address specific niche markets. The diversity of ...

The number of active nodes in a WSN deployment
governs both the longevity of the network and the accuracy
of applications using the network’s data. As node hibernation
techniques become more sophistocated, it is important ...

The so-called real-time web (RTW) is a web of opinions, comments, and personal viewpoints, often expressed in the form of short, 140-character text messages providing abbreviated and highly personalized commentary in ...

Participation in aerobic exercise activity is considered necessary for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) to reduce the potential development of common co-morbidities associated with SCI such as cardiovascular (CV) ...

Background: People with spinal cord injury (SCI) are exposed to the development of comorbidities secondary to a decreased ability to exercise and pathological complications. Aerobic exercise has been advocated as a means ...

The large number of event logs generated in atypical network is increasingly becoming an obstacle for forensicinvestigators to analyze and use to detect and verify maliciousactivities. Research in the area of network ...

A system for soft error detection and correction is proposed for digital Integrated Circuit (IC) implementation of convolution. The convolution is implemented in a Residue NumberSystem using Fermat Number Theoretic Transforms. ...

We describe a set of dialogue simulation experiments,
in which a probabilistic nested user model
is employed in deciding between speech acts for
a collaborative planning task, finding that a gain
in utility can be ...

Mobile computing radically challenges some of the traditional assumptions associated with the software development lifecycle, and end-user behaviour. Successfully meeting these challenges is of fundamental importance if ...

This chapter reflects upon the challenges that confront the deployment of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) applications. Ambient Intelligence demands that everyday artefacts be imbued with intelligent reasoning capabilities ...

Decision-making is a complex and demanding process often constrained in a number of possibly conflicting dimensions including quality, responsiveness and cost. This paper considers in situ decision making whereby decisions ...

While the technology underlying speech interfaces has improved in recent years, our understanding of the human side of speech interactions remains limited. This paper
provides new insight on one important human aspect of ...

Providing an intuitive and ubiquitous interface to those services
aimed at the mobile computing community continues to preoccupy
both service providers and certain sections of the research
community. In this short paper, ...

Conventional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) usually adopt a centralised approach to data processing and interpretation primarily due to the limited computation and energy resources available on sensor nodes. These constraints ...

Visual sensors are an indispensable prerequisite for those AmI environments that require
a surveillance component. One practical issue concerns maximizing the operational
longevity of such sensors as the operational ...

Within this paper we present the details of the ENTER
(Environment which Totally Envelops the useR) system.
The ENTER system seeks to provide a totally immersive
3-Dimensional environment which is highly configurable
and ...

Power management for WSNs can take many forms, from adaptively tuning the power consumption of some of the components of a node to hibernating it completely. In the later case, the competence of the WSN must not be ...

While many robotic initiatives now share the thesis that robots are a compelling instance of those artefacts
which comprise and deliver smart and ubiquitous environments, reconciling the social interface aspect with ...

Often today’s recommender systems look to past user activity in order to influence future recommendations. In the case of social web search, employing collaborative recommendation techniques allows for personalization of ...